1 rare animal

2 mythical animal

3 monster

1 (surgical) operation

2 surgery

3 classifier: 个 gè

1 technology

2 technique

3 skill

4 classifier: 门 mén

5 classifier: 种 zhǒng

6 classifier: 项 xiàng

1 military skill or technique (in former times)

2 all kinds of martial art sports (some claiming spiritual development)

3 self-defense

4 tradition of choreographed fights from opera and film (recent usage)

5 also called kungfu 功夫

6 classifier: 种 zhǒng

1 beast

2 animal

3 beastly

4 bestial

1 without learning or skills (idiom); ignorant and incompetent

1 human face, beast's heart (idiom); two-faced

2 malicious and duplicitous

1 benevolent heart and skillful execution (idiom, from Mencius); charitable in thought and deed

1 lit. scatter like birds and beasts (idiom)

2 fig. to head off in various directions

3 to flee helter-skelter

1 to be up to one's ears in work (idiom)

2 to be unable to attend to other things at the same time